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Roderick Ferguson

Roderick A. Ferguson is associate professor of race and critical theory in the Department of American Studies. He is also affiliated faculty in the departments of Women’s Studies and African American & African Studies. He studied sociology at Howard University and critical theory, sociology of culture, and race at the University of California, San Diego. He joined the Departent of American Studies at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2000. His research interests include the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender in modern political, economic and cultural formations. Pursuant to those interests, he completed Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique, a theory of the normative foundations of the American nation-state, capital, and American sociology, a theory that investigates the was in which the gendered and sexual heterogeneity of African American culture disrupts the logics of capital, state, and canonical epistemes. Currently, he is working on a book project that analyzes the emergence of African American and Caribbean intellectual formations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how those formations negotiated with the gendered and sexualized legacies of Enlightenment thought.